The intellivision had a disk, and the coleco vision had a little joystick thing. They both had a number pad above that i think. My uncle had the colecovision, and it was much easier on the thumbs than our intellivision.
Sounds like the thumb killing controller from the old Intellivision console game system. Looks pretty, but doesn't seem as great after about 30 minutes of use.
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How tightly do you hold the steering wheel? Loosen it up a bit, eh?
You know, you can remove one hand from the wheel for a short time to stretch it and air it out, without much risk of crashing through the kindergarten playground. Just don't try to stretch out both hands at the same time until you've mastered the art of steering with your knee.
"The glass isn't always half empty, and perhaps for others, it's half full.."
I've never understood that half full/half empty thing. If a glass is half full, isn't it also, by definition, half empty? It can't be one without also being the other.
Isn't that one of the reasons for using a simulator? So you can do those dumb things without actually ending up dead? It establishes for you those things that would be really dumb in a real plane...
The Hudson's Bay Company was granted a Royal Charter from King Charles II on May 2, 1670. That's 333 years, 2 months, and 16 days, making it the oldest incorporated company in the world that is still in existance today.
Nice try buddy, but it meant "South of Houston Street (area south of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City)" before it meant Small Office/Home Office. It's also a district in downtown London (which probably predates the NY version), but I'm not sure if that is an acronym or just a proper name.
Did you RTFA? No? Heres a section you might find interesting.
"A January 2003 draft envisioned regulating only "professional on-line media." Two months later, a March 2003 draft dropped the word "professional" and intentionally covered all "online media" of any type."
"usage: Irregardless originated in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its fairly widespread use in speech called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that "there is no such word." There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead."
It's not a proper english word, but enough people use it that they have to put a comment in the dictionary asking people NOT to use it. It's also a waste of a syllable, and two keystrokes:)
"sure you might have a steering angle sensor (doubtfull it has any log, even if you do) the compounding error would make it almost useless after a few turns."
Ever heard of a compass? Most GPS units have them too...
Actually, yes, it does. That gives 17,576,000 possibilities, and in a country of ~30,000,000 people, that's enough for one for every two people. Way more than enough to give one to every block, or one to every apartment building, which is what they do. Most suburban streets have two, one for the even numbered houses, and one for the odd numbered houses on the other side of the street.
Let me introduce you to a handy new invention. It's sometimes called a "laptop", or possibly "notebook computer", or sometimes even "portable computer". It has wireless power in the way of a battery, which is usually a collection of Lithium Ion power cells. They generally have integrated keyboards, mice and speakers. Even the monitor is integrated gracefully. Not a single wire. Isn't that cool?
The term "camcorder" is made up of the words "camera" and "recorder", and I believe it is both of those things.
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I think it's obvious to most people that film still has it's place in some niche markets, like those you speak of. However, digital will get there eventually. It's already there in still photography. As this article points out, it's pretty much there in consumer level video.
Sure, it's got a bit of catching up to do in professional level video, but I give it another 5-10 years max before digital totally kills film in every aspect.
Look where digital was 10 years ago. There was not really any such thing as digital still cameras. Even digital scanners were still hugely expensive. Now I have a 5 megapixel point and shoot camera with 256MB compactflash in my backpack that cost only about double what a high end film camera in the same range would cost (Canon S50, highly recommended by the way).
In 10 more years, we'll probably have 20 megapixel disposable cameras for stills, and our ultra-high definition DV camcorders will record to a 100TB compactflash card at 20GB/s.
Not that big a deal when you're talking about what is probably a $20,000 camera. This ain't no handicam you know. The digital camcorders used in filming the new Matrix movie cost ~$100,000 each.
Yeah, I agree with the date thing. Neither the north amercan nor the european date format makes sense. mm-dd-yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy, neither of them will sort correctly if you're doing numerical sorting.
The ISO standard is yyyy-mm-dd, so why doesn't everybody just use that?
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At least you could spell the word of the day correctly. It's "Augur", not Auger.
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Colecovision controller
Intellivision controller
The intellivision had a disk, and the coleco vision had a little joystick thing. They both had a number pad above that i think. My uncle had the colecovision, and it was much easier on the thumbs than our intellivision.
Sounds like the thumb killing controller from the old Intellivision console game system. Looks pretty, but doesn't seem as great after about 30 minutes of use.
How tightly do you hold the steering wheel? Loosen it up a bit, eh?
You know, you can remove one hand from the wheel for a short time to stretch it and air it out, without much risk of crashing through the kindergarten playground. Just don't try to stretch out both hands at the same time until you've mastered the art of steering with your knee.
"The glass isn't always half empty, and perhaps for others, it's half full.."
I've never understood that half full/half empty thing. If a glass is half full, isn't it also, by definition, half empty? It can't be one without also being the other.
I hate dumb sayings like that.
Isn't that one of the reasons for using a simulator? So you can do those dumb things without actually ending up dead? It establishes for you those things that would be really dumb in a real plane...
The Hudson's Bay Company was granted a Royal Charter from King Charles II on May 2, 1670. That's 333 years, 2 months, and 16 days, making it the oldest incorporated company in the world that is still in existance today.
Nice try buddy, but it meant "South of Houston Street (area south of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City)" before it meant Small Office/Home Office. It's also a district in downtown London (which probably predates the NY version), but I'm not sure if that is an acronym or just a proper name.
Did you RTFA? No? Heres a section you might find interesting.
"A January 2003 draft envisioned regulating only "professional on-line media." Two months later, a March 2003 draft dropped the word "professional" and intentionally covered all "online media" of any type."
From m-w.com:
:)
"usage: Irregardless originated in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its fairly widespread use in speech called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that "there is no such word." There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead."
It's not a proper english word, but enough people use it that they have to put a comment in the dictionary asking people NOT to use it. It's also a waste of a syllable, and two keystrokes
"sure you might have a steering angle sensor (doubtfull it has any log, even if you do) the compounding error would make it almost useless after a few turns."
Ever heard of a compass? Most GPS units have them too...
"...irregardless of the circumstances."
Irregardless? What language is that? It's certainly not an english word.
Audio CDs are written in a spiral, data CDs use cylindrical tracks.
Actually, yes, it does. That gives 17,576,000 possibilities, and in a country of ~30,000,000 people, that's enough for one for every two people. Way more than enough to give one to every block, or one to every apartment building, which is what they do. Most suburban streets have two, one for the even numbered houses, and one for the odd numbered houses on the other side of the street.
5.0.2 doesn't seem to work on these videos. Just updated to 5.0.5 and they play just fine.
Let me introduce you to a handy new invention. It's sometimes called a "laptop", or possibly "notebook computer", or sometimes even "portable computer". It has wireless power in the way of a battery, which is usually a collection of Lithium Ion power cells. They generally have integrated keyboards, mice and speakers. Even the monitor is integrated gracefully. Not a single wire. Isn't that cool?
My BJC4100 is still kicking too. It's about 8 years old now. Great printer, with cheap ink.
PSB makes some great speakers, I agree. However, their HQ is in Pickering, Ontario, so they ain't french...
The term "camcorder" is made up of the words "camera" and "recorder", and I believe it is both of those things.
I think it's obvious to most people that film still has it's place in some niche markets, like those you speak of. However, digital will get there eventually. It's already there in still photography. As this article points out, it's pretty much there in consumer level video.
Sure, it's got a bit of catching up to do in professional level video, but I give it another 5-10 years max before digital totally kills film in every aspect.
Look where digital was 10 years ago. There was not really any such thing as digital still cameras. Even digital scanners were still hugely expensive. Now I have a 5 megapixel point and shoot camera with 256MB compactflash in my backpack that cost only about double what a high end film camera in the same range would cost (Canon S50, highly recommended by the way).
In 10 more years, we'll probably have 20 megapixel disposable cameras for stills, and our ultra-high definition DV camcorders will record to a 100TB compactflash card at 20GB/s.
Just give it time...
"I believe it to be the only web site that claims the infinite is possible."
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No it isn't
Not that big a deal when you're talking about what is probably a $20,000 camera. This ain't no handicam you know. The digital camcorders used in filming the new Matrix movie cost ~$100,000 each.
They have the Internet on computers now?
Yeah, I agree with the date thing. Neither the north amercan nor the european date format makes sense. mm-dd-yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy, neither of them will sort correctly if you're doing numerical sorting.
The ISO standard is yyyy-mm-dd, so why doesn't everybody just use that?